My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didn’t meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasn’t in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.